An Irish broadband provider has won a lawsuit launched by the entertainment industry. IRMA, the Irish Recorded Music Association, uniting Universal, Warner, EMI and Sony, had made an attempt to require UPC service provider to cut its customers off the Internet, if they are caught by the music industry for illegally sharing copyrighted content. The Internet service provider,

It was only a month ago that a new fabulous music downloading app emerged to become highly popular. Software called Mulve didn’t carry any music of its own, but allowed its users to conduct their own searches and download content from the servers owned by Russian most popular social network InTouch (vKontakte).

After the last month’s chaos of the police raids throughout Europe related to the higher levels of the so-called Warez Scene, it is now revealed that some individual is involved in the investigation. An alleged IP address in Sweden appeared to link to an account owned by a “top politician.” A suspect,

It has been almost 2 weeks since two of the most popular online BitTorrent trackers, PublicBitTorrent and OpenBitTorrent, started going down. Considering the recent news of DDoS attacks at many BitTorrent tracker websites, the public feared that both this trackers became victims of such an assault. However, the cause is friendly fire now,

Peter Sunde, the co-founder of the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker website based in Sweden, stated the obvious fact: whatever the outcome of the ongoing trial related to his conviction for the facilitation of copyright, it will anyway end up at the Swedish Supreme Court.

Steve Tepp, the representative for the American Chamber’s Global IP Center, claimed that the recently proposed legislation called Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act has nothing to do with foreign political censorship, even though it would require service providers to block the importation into the country of services provided by a websites devoted to infringing activities.

BitTorrent has added video streaming capabilities through the Tribler client, and more recently uTorrent. However, thus far the largest sites have been lacking the implementation of those techniques. All this changed a few days ago when the Wikimedia Foundation cooperated with P2P Next in order to implement BitTorrent-powered video streaming for their content.

Two top executives for the Motion Picture Association of America recently gave an interview, expressing their views on copyright in the modern environment, as well as on the anti-piracy approach which comes with it.

Another day of the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker’s appeal started with the video of Carl Lundstrom’s previously recorded interrogations and simple screenshots displayed by prosecutors as evidence. However, all these efforts only exposed prosecutors’ technical incompetence.

The news about the suggested law is now not that it is not going to break the web or implement unconstitutional restraints on free speech, but about the alleviation of the concerns related to the fears that the bill can be hurried through.